{"id":48113,"date":"2026-11-03T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/?p=48113"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:29:35","slug":"michel-benita-contrebassiste-le-questionnaire-de-proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/michel-benita-contrebassiste-le-questionnaire-de-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Benita, contrebassiste &#8211; Le Questionnaire de Proust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Michel Benita, contrebassiste, a bien voulu poursuivre cette s\u00e9rie des fameux portraits-questionnaires de Proust, l\u00e9g\u00e8rement revisit\u00e9s Couleurs Jazz\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Une mani\u00e8re originale de monter les premi\u00e8res marches de l\u2019univers de ces formidables musiciens de Jazz, artistes de notre si\u00e8cle.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014\u2013=====\u2014\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Quel est pour vous le comble de la mis\u00e8re musicale ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">90% de la chanson fran\u00e7aise d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui et par-dessus tout l\u2019Autotune !<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>O\u00f9 aimeriez-vous vivre ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sur l&rsquo;\u00cele d\u2019Yeu, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 j\u2019habite \ud83d\ude09<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre id\u00e9al de bonheur terrestre ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vivre sur une \u00eele, entour\u00e9 de ma famille.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Pour quelles fausses notes avez-vous le plus d\u2019indulgence ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Celles sur lesquelles on insiste pour qu\u2019elles deviennent essentielles (cf Miles Davis) et perdent ainsi leur statut de \u00ab\u00a0fausse note\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Quels sont les h\u00e9ros de roman que vous pr\u00e9f\u00e9<\/strong><strong>rez ?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Portnoy (Philip Roth), Robin Hood, Peter Pan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Quel est votre musicien classique favori ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Bach, Ravel, Schoenberg\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos h<\/strong><strong>\u00e9ro\u00efnes ou <\/strong><strong>d<\/strong><strong>ivas favorites dans la vie r\u00e9elle ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Simone Veil et Weil, Aretha Franklin, Shirley Horn, Joni Mitchell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos h<\/strong><strong>\u00e9ro\u00efnes dans la fiction ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Princesse Leia, Fifi Brindacier, Elaine Banes (Seinfeld), Virginia Woolf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre peintre favori ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Egon Schiele, Fabienne Verdier, Turner, Rembrandt\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre musicien <\/strong><strong>de <\/strong><strong>jazz favori ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Obligatoirement plusieurs r\u00e9ponses, je triche\u2026 Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, Jon Hassell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos contrebassistes favoris\u00a0?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Anders Jormin, Scott LaFaro, Charlie Haden, Lorraine Campet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre qualit\u00e9 pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9e chez l\u2019homme ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">La modestie, l\u2019absence d\u2019un ego surdimensionn\u00e9, une certaine part de f\u00e9minit\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre qualit\u00e9 pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9e chez la femme ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">La combinaison beaut\u00e9 \/ humour \/ ind\u00e9pendance, le trio gagnant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre vertu pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9<\/strong><strong>e ?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">La modestie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre occupation pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9<\/strong><strong>e ?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">La cuisine ! Et me baigner dans l\u2019oc\u00e9an.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Qui auriez-vous aim\u00e9 \u00eatre ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Guitariste de rock et pouvoir arpenter la sc\u00e8ne en jouant des power chords.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ou bien un super \u00e9b\u00e9niste ou luthier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Le principal trait de <\/strong><strong>votre<\/strong><strong> caract\u00e8re ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">L\u2019impatience. Trop \u00e0 faire !<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ce que <\/strong><strong>vous appr\u00e9ciez <\/strong><strong>le plus chez <\/strong><strong>vos<\/strong><strong> amis ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Le fait qu\u2019ils existent, qu\u2019ils soient juste mes amis et que, bien souvent, ils aient chang\u00e9 ma vie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre principal d\u00e9faut ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">L\u2019impatience !<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre <\/strong><strong>r\u00eave de bonheur ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Continuer \u00e0 vivre comme j\u2019ai choisi de le faire. Et jouer, le plus longtemps possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre <\/strong><strong>plus grand malheur ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Voir mes enfants ou petits-enfants dispara\u00eetre pr\u00e9matur\u00e9ment. \u00c0 la guerre ? C\u2019est d\u2019actualit\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ce que vous voudriez \u00eatre ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Musicien encore et toujours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>La couleur que vous pr\u00e9f\u00e9rez ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Quand j\u2019\u00e9tais petit c\u2019\u00e9tait le rouge, comme les pompiers. Dor\u00e9navant, je dirais le jaune citron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>La fleur que vous aimez ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Le lys blanc ou la rose jaune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>L\u2019oiseau que vous pr\u00e9f\u00e9rez ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Le merle (moqueur de pr\u00e9f\u00e9rence). Grand siffleur !<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos auteurs favoris en prose ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Philip Roth, Jim Harrison, Paul Auster, Jorge Luis Borges, Fred Vargas\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos po\u00e8tes pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9<\/strong><strong>s ?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Je ne suis pas un grand lecteur de po\u00e9sie mais, classiquement, Victor Hugo, un g\u00e9ant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos h\u00e9ros dans la vie r\u00e9elle ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mon p\u00e8re ; Barack Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos h\u00e9ros dans l\u2019histoire ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Martin Luther King, De Gaulle, Rosa Parks, Marie Curie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Vos noms favoris ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Isabelle, Judith, Valentine, C\u00e9leste\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Ce que vous d\u00e9testez par-dessus tout ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">L\u2019extr\u00eame droite et le complotisme. L\u2019ignorance et la m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 satisfaites en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>La r\u00e9forme que <\/strong><strong>vous admirez<\/strong><strong> le plus ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">L\u2019abolition de la peine de mort et l\u2019autorisation de l\u2019IVG.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Le don de la nature que <\/strong><strong>vous voudriez <\/strong><strong>avoir ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">La souplesse musculaire, l\u2019oreille absolue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Comment vous voudriez mourir ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dans mon lit, sans m\u2019en rendre compte, \u00e9videmment. Pas sur sc\u00e8ne, la crise cardiaque en public, tr\u00e8s peu pour moi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre d<\/strong><strong>\u00e9finition du jazz\u00a0<\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Une certaine approche de la musique, notamment par l\u2019improvisation et non un style d\u00e9fini.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00c9<\/strong><strong>tat pr\u00e9sent de votre esprit ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">S\u00e9r\u00e9nit\u00e9 et conscience de mes privil\u00e8ges absolus : \u00eatre en bonne sant\u00e9 et avoir pu choisir ma vie. Une si grande part des humains n\u2019ont pas cette chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre <\/strong><strong>devise ?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Plus que jamais : La Femme est l\u2019avenir de l\u2019Homme !<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Votre Titre Phare ?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Un solo teaser, enregistr\u00e9 au Triton, Les Lilas, le 1er novembre 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A \u00e9couter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uG0iTKvKxH0\"><strong>ici<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Propos recueillis par Franck M\u00e9dioni.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Photo couverture Wiktor Franko.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Photo Header Michel Benita &amp; Archie Shepp -DR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Benita, contrebassiste, a bien voulu poursuivre cette s\u00e9rie des fameux portraits-questionnaires de Proust, l\u00e9g\u00e8rement revisit\u00e9s Couleurs Jazz\u2026 Une mani\u00e8re originale de monter les premi\u00e8res marches de l\u2019univers de ces&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":329,"featured_media":48114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,10495],"tags":[226],"class_list":["post-48113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-a-la-une","category-portraitfr","tag-michel-benita"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48118,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48113\/revisions\/48118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couleursjazz.fr\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}